Hey, Doug...

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mtsu_av8er

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I was at BNA today and saw an MD-88 landing on 2R at about 2:30...was that you?

Also, I was up in Lexington last Saturday at about 4:30 PM...were you in Lexington then?

I also heard a Delta flight on my scanner, and they were at FL310, requesting direct New hope...was that you??

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Sorry, couldn't resist...
 
At least I am not the only one who gets irritated by those posts
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It would drive me nuts, glad Doug is used to it and doesn't care.
 
Hate the same.

But I get the "you're an Air Force pilot? I know this guy that's an Air Force officer.....he works in a missile silo in Montana, name's Jim. You know him?"
 
hey doug how do i apply to your flight school, and hey can you get me some cool delta wings .. or even some buddy passes....lol sorry im just way to bored
 
I'll just tack this on to the end of ANOTHER "hey doug" thread. The new flight training link looks good. Out of morbid curiosity, what constitutes a JC approved flight school/training center other then the fact they pay you to get advertsing?

Ethan
 
Oh that's nothing man!

So I took Kristie's car down to the dealership for some warranty work. They send me over to Enterprise for a loaner car and the guy is asking the normal questions.

Then "What's your employer?"

(dammit!)

"I work for Delta"

"The airline? Are you a pilot?"

"No, I'm a poet for Delta. I write all of that touchy feely stuff in SkyMagazine"

(blank stare)

"You're a pilot. I used to date a stewardess for AMerican, do you have any of those flight coupons?"

"No"

"Wow, you know you do!"

(next guy swivels his chair around)

"You said you're a pilot? What's your route?"

"Various..."

"Been to Alaska?"

"Yup." (stare at my watch because I'm missing the David Leibowitz show)

"What's it like?"

"Holland America had a great ship, but I didn't spend more than a few hours in port"

"You ever fly up there?"

"No. Hey, I've gotta run I'm a little late for an appointment"

"Well, if you have any extra flight coupons, come on by, here's my business card. Wow, I liked dating that stewardess because when she was gone, she was gone, but when she was in town, hubba hubba!"

(forced smile and a nod from me)

"How much are tickets to Anchorage?"

"I dunno, you'll have to call your travel agent..."

"Yeah, but come on, what do they really cost to Anchorage?"

And so on and so on.... GRRrrr...
 
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Hate the same.

But I get the "you're an Air Force pilot? I know this guy that's an Air Force officer.....he works in a missile silo in Montana, name's Jim. You know him?"

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And btw, here's the trick on that one:

"You for for XYZ airlines?"

"Yeah."

"DO you know Frank Smith? He was an ATL-based captain"

"'bout umm, 5'10? older guy?" (most captains are 'older' and avg height is about 5'10 or so)

"Yeah!"

"See him all the time! I'll tell him you said hi!"

And they won't bother you any more, and usually go away smiling, but if you try to explain that there are 7000 Delta pilots and ATL is a faceless, nameless "uni-hub", they'll keep pestering you!
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Not to be a bum head-but you do realize that people are just trying to have a conversation with your right? This isn't a special pilot only situation. I had the same thing happen regardging insurance and any other job I've had. People just ask if you can get them a deal, ask about your job or try to relate to you in some way, etc. You all probably do it to other people all the time too. I have people ask me if I'm related to "so and so" that has the same last name. I have people ask me if I know "so and so" that lives in the same city as me. Kind of sad that you are all so annoyed by this-people are just being friendly and chatty, there are worst things to be.
 
I understand what you mean, but I'm kind of the school of thought that "what I do" is a personal question. Kind of like being at a cocktail party and the first question out of a person's mouth is "So...what do you do for a living?" -- I'd like to say, "Well, I like to hike, have two cats and really enjoy thinking outside of the box".
 
I've just got my PPL and I'm already getting used to it. I have this conversation at least once a week:

>Yeah I want to work for an airline someday.
>So you want to be a pilot?
>Well, I kinda already am. But yes, I've still got a long way to go before I'll be ready to work for an airline--I'm gonna be a flight instructor first.
>Then you can be a commercial pilot?
>Exactly
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>You're gonna be rich, man. Can you get me some buddy passes?
>Inside feeling:
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saying: we'll see.
 
Michelle, I think Doug understands that. However, speaking from my own experience, it gets VERY annoying to answer the same ignorant man-on-the-street questions about flying from people that don't even know enough to ask a question that makes sense. "What's your route?" is one of the most annoying to me ... do they have any idea how many different places a pilot goes in even a single month?

I'm all for being friendly, but it just gets tiring explaining the same thing over and over again. No different really than telling Caleb "NO" about something ten times, then he'll do it again ... aggravating, huh?
 
So I'm gonna try and irritate you MikeD...

On our way back from Phoenix to DAB we had to divert to Tuscon. Our electrical system was all messed up and we could smell smoke coming from the battery.

Anyways, while waiting for it to be fixed we saw some F-16's painted up like Russian fighters. And then we saw an A-10, was that you?
 
Oh, just wait until you're an airline pilot!

"Are you captain?"

"Nope!"

"So when do you become captain and get to fly the airplane?"

"Well, I do fly the airplane often"

"I thought just the captain flew the airplane and the copilot did the radios"

"Nah, we trade off"

"So you're captain while you're flying the airplane? Won't the airline get mad if the captain's not flying the airplane?"

"umm, no, we're both trained!"

"Then why aren't you captain?"

"Seniority"

"How many years do you have to have in?"

"Umm, ten I guess, hey, I said NO ONIONS!"
 
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"What's your route?" is one of the most annoying to me ... do they have any idea how many different places a pilot goes in even a single month?

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Or "Hey, I bet you've got a girlfriend in every station!" in clear earshot of my wife.

That hasn't happened in years though.
 
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No different really than telling Caleb "NO" about something ten times, then he'll do it again ... aggravating, huh?


[/ QUOTE ] No it's not the same because you aren't getting asked the same exact question by the same person ten times in a row. If I had ten kids and then each asked the same question once how could I get mad at any of them? If ONE kid asked the same question ten times, THEN I'd be irritated. Like I said, I bet you all do it to other people as well. No one else knows when they ask you that they weren't the first to do it. Try being pregnant. Nine months of "When are you due", "is it a boy or a girl", "my you are really big-you must be ready any day now" (when you really have 8 more months to go), "are you ready", etc. etc. Sure it's enough to make you crazy, because each time some one asks it's like "not this again". But if you realize that people are only trying to connect with you, how can you be annoyed? I guess it just seems like there are much worse things to be annoyed by then something so trivial as people trying to converse with you.
 
Yeah, but you only listen to the pregnant thing for a few months. Try seven years. Or more. We're not trying to be mean or nasty, it's just amusing how over the years we can write a script for conversations we have with strangers.

We're really not trying to be mean here, I swear. I always answered the questions people asked with a smile, and never let any irritation show. But it does get old after a few years.
 
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No it's not the same because you aren't getting asked the same exact question by the same person ten times in a row.

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In my opinion, the difference is people don't know anything about flying or the aviation industry. Yesterday I managed a decent landing, and after we shut down, one of the passengers (an attorney whom I presume knows next to nothing about aviation) said, "I guess playing lots of video games when you were younger paid off, eh?" I just smiled and said "yeah, I guess." I rarely play/played video games, but thats at least the third time I've gotten that. How playing video games is like landing an 11,000 lb. airplane (or any airplane besides a UAV for that matter), is beyond me.
 
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How playing video games is like landing an 11,000 lb. airplane (or any airplane for that matter), is beyond me.

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That's what Corbin always claims, that he has to get in his video game time so he can have good eye/hand coordination.
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Oh...well in the spirit of not getting Corbin in trouble, I'll agree with him!
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But I would sooner say playing video games excessively does more harm than good.
 
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